[Suggestion] Allow giveaway creators to limit the number of entries

Isn't that one of the functions of SGtools?

you can make short giveaways to reduce the number of entries.

Bots will be the winners.

I was about to make a similar suggestion.
Necrobump

Limit to 5
Bots
???
Profit!

Nice necro btw :/
Guess we'll see if the necro-suspension "rule" is a rule or just that one user they picked on.

That's what 1-hour giveaways are for. Maybe even a level 5-6 1-hour giveaway

Okay, this is necro on a suggestion that's 3 years old, so it's not very likely such a feature will be implemented. My thoughts on it nevertheless:

It could be interesting if the winner is drawn as soon as the limit is reached. For example, someone makes a puzzle giveaway, that will be drawn as soon as there's a set amount of entries. With those puzzles it's hard to tell what's the perfect time to run the giveaway. Give it too little time and you won't get enough entries. Set the time too long and there might be almost as many entries as if there hadn't been any puzzle at all. This feature could help - probably needs some way to report back/auto close a related discussion, so people don't start solving the puzzle after the giveaway is already drawn.

Do we need such a feature? Probably not. But it might be fun.

This is an awesome idea! The bots will absolutely love it! (in their own synthetic way).
(and yes, I know this thread is necro'ed to hell and back)

Increasing GA entry lvl to 3 seems better for me

Do you want less entries? Just make them lvl10 xD

I'm in Australia so you will have to do your own timezone calculations dependent on your geographical locale. It's all dependent on farts...stay with me on this.

If I don't want, for instance, people form Myanmar entering my giveaways I will pass wind at precisely 2112 on Sunday 17th August 2019 and wait until 0421 on Sunday 25th August for my giveaway to begin. At that time my fart will have traveled from my anus, along the southern hemisphere's end of winter air currents, to the borders of Myanmar, and grown to cover the exact land mass of Myanmar due to thermal expansion and tightly controlled sphincter muscles. My giveaway will then be calculated to end at the same time as that of the arrival of the migratory birds to Myanmar for the season, whose presence will disperse the fart with the turbulence created from their wings beating.

If I don't want people with a win/loss ratio of less than 1/1 to enter then I will cut the cheese at a frequency of 30,000Hz and a volume of between 150dB to 200dB. Now, people won't hear this...but dogs will. Everyone knows that anyone with a win/loss ratio of less than 1/1 owns a dog while everyone with a win/loss ration greater than 1/1 owns a cat. Now all I have to do is set the giveaway for the minimum time so I only have to continuously flatulate for 1hr and place my desktop mic against my buttocks as every entry will be from a person sitting at their pc with their speakers on and dog owners will be distracted by their barking dogs for the next hour.

What if you only want 25 people to enter your giveaway? Then you will need an olfactometer to follow me on this one. I couldn't get my hands on a copy of the ASTM's Standard Test Methods for Natural Gas Odor Intensity, as they want you to pay for it. But whatever their estimation is, of the smell intensity that becomes unbearable...that's what I produce. Multiplied by a factor of whatever number of entries I want.

It's that simple my friend.

Then you can limit to 10, have 10 of your friends enter, they mark as received, you never had the game to begin with. +level?
Too easy to exploit.

It would be a neat feature if it wouldn't give any CV under 1-200 entries, or at all.

No one will benefit from this venture. Bots will continue to dominate the giveaways.

I'm not particularly against it, I'm just curious as to why? What does a GA creator gain from it? What do you mean by "controlling win-percentage"?